It's Good

The Seeger Olympics rolled along this Thanksgiving day, as all 5 competitors are in Clinton for the holiday. Brooke called a field- goal- kicking competition, which necessitated a trip down to the Cougar Dome. We played three events down there (the next two chosen by andy & jen). Our warm-ups were a bit embarrassing, but when the competition started, andy started off strong, nailing two of three. Jen & Brooke failed to make the kicks, but tim came up and hit all three. Joel was the last to go. He kicked his first one and it hit the bottom crossbar, and bounced in. His next kick was low and to the left (he took his eye of the ball), then his third one went deep through the uprights. Tim won the event.

Andy picked a punting competition. Joel & Tim literally exactly tied with their first kicks, and they had a punt-off. Tim's kick was impressive, back farther than his first had been, and joel miss-hit his next punt. It almost rolled for the length, but tim won it again and went up by two in the overall game. Jen next selected a cart-wheel competition. Andy actually went over the top, then joel looked very impressive, but flubbed the landing. Brooke opted for a somersault (thus immediately being eliminated), jen then nailed one perfectly & tim kind of did one, sort of. Jen was awarded the win by the distinguished panel of judges, Jim & Emily.

In other news, joel won a MS Solitare match against andy and extended his skunk-y lead. Should be an exciting weekend of events.

Turn Your Radio On

Brooke & joel competed in yet another event, resulting in the tying up of their two-way competition. Brooke selected (granted, with a bit of pressure applied by joel) “the radio game” as their next event during a far-too-long car ride from Omaha to Clinton. Joel is generally terrible at the radio game, mostly because he thinks and reacts much slower than the average human. Brooke skipped out to a lead by possibly correctly identifying a song as a Goo-Goo Dolls piece (joel subsequently guessed Gin Blossoms & Foo Fighters & while we’re not 100% sure it was the Goo-Goo Dolls, it didn’t seem hard enough to be fighting foo & it was far too recent to have been a Gin Blossoms song)… Joel had a couple close misses, including an instrumental piece that may or may not have been “Octopus’ Garden”, then Joel scored by identifying David Sedaris’ voice on NPR. (note: there is some disagreement as to whether identifying a non-song item on the radio, but I’ve long argued that it should be allowed). We listened to the end of the piece about death & then continued on. The game was tight, with brooke jumping ahead, then joel catching up, until joel nabbed two in a row, winning on correctly identifying Dire Straits as the singers of “Money For Nothing”. While there were several questionable calls (possible non-titles as answers and the dreaded Phil Collins or Genesis question), the point went to joel who came back to tie the brooke v. joel games & now has the next selection. Should be an exciting weekend in SeegerOlympic matchups.

In other SeegerOlympic news the poetry contest judges have been finalized (and all but one told that they are involved). The poems will all be sent to the Commissioner, Shane, then anonymized and forwarded to three judges, Mom Seeger, D-Force & Eric. A rubrick is still to be released, but the format is decided.